Tarpeia Gens
occurs only in the kingly and the early republican period. We read of a Sp. Tarpeius, who was the governor of the Roman citadel under Romulus, and whose daughter betrayed it to the Sabines [TARPEIA], and of a Sp. Tarpeius Montanus Capitolinus, who was consul in B. C. 454 with A. Aternius Varus Fontinalis. [CAPITOLINUS.
Vulso
2. A. Manlius Cn. F. P. N. VULSO, probably son of No. 2, was one of the ambassadors sent to Athens in B. C. 454, for the purpose of gaining information about the laws of Solon and the other Greek states, and in B. C. 451 he was a member of the first decemvirate. (Liv. 3.31, 33; Dionys. A. R. 10.54.)